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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Jesus right, he yet America and Jerry Hollen for
regious fination.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
God, yes is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It is fifteen minutes after six o'clock. Good morning, and
welcome to a Wednesday. Thank you for being here and
joining us and waking up and getting your day started
with Columbia's Morning News. I'm Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson.
We're glad to have you back. Yeah. I had a
school early yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I do that that once a year physical thing which
apparently only scheduled like at eight thirty of the morning.
Is that a rule? Is that written somewhere you can
only do physicals at eight thirty in the morning.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I think doctors want to get it out of the
way so they can get onto their real patients, the
real patients.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
He guess it right, So yeah, get to be back
with you. We're open the government, not all of it
is as the shutdown is the part part okay, partial,
not everything. The partial shutdown is underway here.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
How would you like to be working for the federal
government today and you're told, well, you can stay at
home because you're a non essential worker. And then in
the next report you hear the OMB director saying, you
know what, this is a good chance for us to
look at everyone who is and isn't essential to federal government.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And they've been talking about that for a couple of
weeks leading up to this. Doose part two. Yeah, the
possibility because here's the rub for the Democrats. When them
it shuts down, whoever the president is, well, they're there,
their powers tend to expand here. And this is what
(02:09):
we're going to see. Now, whether we see this well
we see government workers actually lose their jobs over this
shutdown or not, well, we'll find out. But yeah, I mean,
we've got a lot of federal government workers around here.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
And it's hard to argue you're I mean, you're a
valuable part of the government process. If you've been labeled
non essential and sent home.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
M well, and you have to be careful because it's okay,
you know, essential workers. You know, I know, it's like
safety officials, life or death stuff, right, you know, ye
air traffic controllers, yeahda yeada, YadA, Just because you're not
one of those doesn't make you non essential. But that's
(02:53):
the that's the broad definition.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
But there is a lot of pork out there, and
this is one more opportunity, like Doze earlier, to sure
weed through the government and see who really is working
and who isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Which will produce another furity of lawsuits and court actions
and you know, judges getting involved in everything else. So yeah,
you're right those two point zero here. So we'll talk
about again what it means for us here in South Carolina.
We'll get into that today, and we'll be talking to
you about on the national of how all this came
to be once again and what the prospects are to
get things open back up again. All right. Finally, finally,
(03:29):
the FCC has approved this proposal that will allow states
and local prisons here in South Carolina and across the
country to block illegal cell phone usage by inmates. That
vote was unanimous, by the way, thank you. Okay, So
finally the FCC standing up to these cell phone lobbies again.
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We were talking last week to the AG about this.
They've always allowed the federal institutions to do this. It's
the same techn you know, the same technology at state
prisons and why the FCC would't allow state lock ups
to do it. It's still beyond me, but that now
is changing, and this is bad news for some of
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these thugs behind bars who've been continue to run their
operations using illegal cell phones. Not anymore. When this gets implemented.
We wait to see. We asked that question last week
of the Attorney General. But I'm sure the doc has
had contingency plans for this and hopefully they'll get it
done quick. Ralph Norman is calling for Brian Excuse me
(04:38):
how we say that Byron Gibson not to be impeached
the Fifth Circuits Solicitor. This or something I know you
talked about after I left yesterday, mister Thompson. Yes, that
was the murder of Logan Federico, which is making a
lot of national news right now thanks to her father. Yes,
we'll talk more about this. Remember the man behind Borrows
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charged with a killing Alexander Dickey. You talk about a
long rap sheet, then there's this one right career criminal. Yeah,
and why he was out walking the streets. It's unimaginable
how this could have happened. So we'll talk a bit
more about that. A new total abortion ban has been
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proposed in our state. Six restrictions are being weighed this
new bill. I guess here we go again. In the
next session. We'll discuss what those are. State paper breaking
the news that the city of Casey paid, as the
headline says, thousands for a spin job when a reporter
asked for police department records, that the city of Casey
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paid more than twenty six thousand dollars to a communications
firm for a campaign to promote its police department. This
after a reporter's public records request. Well, well, the city
got concerned about, well a negative news store coming from
those documents.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So how could a city be so hyper sensitive about
negative publicity and yet invite so much negative publicity. Casey's
not a big place, No it's not. And there are
a lot of good things going on there right.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now, fabulous things going on. Geez.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
The government dysfunction is I mean, it's worthy of a
big city.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Seems to be, doesn't it. All Right, So now at
the national level, this government shutdown again, a partial shutdown,
that midlight, midnight funny deadline passed. Is Chuck Schumer and
the Democrats, not all or three Democrats that Buck Schumer
on this one, and it's how many more do we need?
Three more? Something like that. I mean, it's close close
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enough to where you might think this thing could gud
get done the next day or two, although some are
thinking of maybe more like three or four weeks. First
government shutdown now in some five years, it's under way now. Again,
the sticking point here has been healthcare. The Democrats want, well,
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these are healthcare subsidies from Obamacare for all, whether you're
here in this country legally or not. But they are
holding hostage Jose Americans who are here legally and and
do have it. Now, these subsidies that have been in
effect since the pandemic, they go away here and that's
(07:29):
what this funding bill is all about. You know. On
the other side of this thing, then uh, you know,
premiums well could well more than double. This is again
for you know, tax paying American citizens. Now they've already
done some quick flash polling on this New York Times
senapol showing that well that that that that voters would
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blame Republicans and Trump as well as Democrats. But nearly
two thirds in this poll say that Democrats in Congress
should not force a federal government shutdown. This was prior
to this shutdown announced last night. So is this a
Schumer shutdown? I would call it an AOC shutdown, but
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it looks like the Democrats, at least core to that pole,
will get the blame for it. So yeah, we are
again is a fact that we are funding healthcare for
illegal aliens in this country and the Democrats are fighting
to keep that. I know they're fighting to keep the
subsidies for everybody else too, But this is all balled
up in there. You'd think they could kind of come
up with a compromise here, all right, Well, we'll keep
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the subsidies for American citizens, but we'll ditch the free
healthcare for people who aren't well anyway. All right, So,
as it turns out, it was a PEP rally. It
was a getting your face moment. It was a hey,
let's get back to the whole warry Rethos thing. And
that was what this meeting at the at Quantico was yesterday.
As that Pete Haggs hath called together all the generals
(08:59):
and admirals from around the world, uh for for for this,
uh this this these speeches, hag Jeff spoke declaring a
war on woke military policies. Uh, the job, he says,
his life or death standards must be met reins reinstitation, reinstatating, uh,
reinstating standard. I mean we're training people to be on
(09:21):
the battlefield. Yeah, in a life and death situation. Why
would we not want people in the best shape, with
the best opportunity to win and save their own lives
in the process. And that includes the the generals in
the A and the generals and the admirals. Yeah, get
in shape, he says. Trump spoke for what about an
hour in typical you know, rambling Trump stuff. You know,
I watched a little bit of that was I was
(09:42):
waiting on my appointment yesterday. But among other things, Uh,
he made a call for using US cities as a
training ground for armed forces. Well, I've talked more about that,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Meantime, the President rolling out well what they're calling Trump
r X. That's a deal with a Pfizer, a direct
to consumer website to buy medications at lower prices. Now
exactly how much, Laura, we don't know. The White House
also announced a good deal with Phizer to lower prices
on its medications and at best seventy billion in New
(10:17):
US manufacturing. I like this, but honestly, don't call it
trump our X. I mean, come on just anyway, and
well the Turning Point USA event back in Utah, Yeah,
an evacuation ordered yesterday at Utah State University after a
(10:38):
suspicious package was reported just ahead of time time for
that rally. Kind of figured out what happened in you
all right, friends, We got that working. We got more
brewin here on this. It's the Wednesday morning, October first
edition of Columbia's Morning News. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 3 (11:00):
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Speaker 2 (11:17):
Six forty one. We'll get to this shutdown in a second.
But I mentioned in the rundown that finally has happened,
and it was in a unanimous vote yesterday, thankfully, finally,
as the Federal Communications Commission passes a rule that will
allow state and local correction facilities to jam illegal cell
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phone use. Thank you. Okay, We've had folks in the state,
Brian Sterling, who was used to be the head of
the Apartment Corrections, the Attorney General, Alan Wilson, and others
who have been non stop fighting for years to make
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this happen. And again the apparently the cell phone lobby
is a very powerful lobby and somehow they intimidated the
FCC to keep from doing this. But again, as we
always talked about when we brought this subject up, what
didn't make any sense at all is that the federal
government and their lockups they were allowed to do this.
(12:21):
It's the same technology. What do they think? Or maybe
it's maybe it was that well, you know, location wise,
there's a lot fewer federal lockups in the our state
and local which is true. And the concern was apparently
always well, it could impact sell signals for folks that
live close by, but they demonstrated the past that that's
(12:44):
not been the case. So the smuggling these contraband cell
phones into prison walls not gonna do any good anymore.
And the ability of the individuals incarcerated to continue to
run their businesses or even to call hits on people
as we've had here happened here in South Carolina that
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will come to an end with this. So that unanimous
vote yesterday the state and local president. They don't have
to do this. It's voluntary and they're not telling you
got to do it. But I can't imagine too many
that won't want to. Now it may be a cost
issue for some local municipalities, but certainly the state wide level,
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expect that to be instituted as soon as possible. All right,
So now government shutdown midnight last night. Again the final
I think you asked a question earlier, mister Thompson, it
would you need five more votes in the Senate? That
was what was needed last night. Fifty five voted to
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continue funding the government. That included three Democrats who did
not side with Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Cassio Cortes, who's
having an outsized influence on this discussion. I say, but
let's whole another story with a Democrat party. So five
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votes short of keeping the government operating, you needed sixty,
you got fifty five. And I think I mentioned earlier,
first government shut down in five years, Yeah, it's more
like sevens It's almost seven years since we last shut
down the government. So what happens. Well, we've got a
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lot of federal government workers here in our state, nearly
twenty five thousand, it's according to the Officer of Personnel Management,
So nearly twenty five thousand felleral employees could be affected.
Most of them will be unless they're deemed again essential.
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We've got some thirty four thousand active duty military members
who may be required to work without pay until the
government reopens. We've seen this before. Funding cuts could disrupt
the Women, Infant, and Children's Program, the WHIG program. States
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like ours may have to stop enrolling new applicants immediately
or almost immediately. Tourism big for our state, Well, national parks. Again,
a federal government shutdown, it's not going to cause a
shutdown of tourism in South Carolina. We have the national parks. Yeah,
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they're a draw, but they're not the big draw. Now.
Airports will continue to function, GSA agents, air traffic controllers,
those are essential workers. They'reosential workers, so they continue to work,
although they'll be working without getting paid. So I don't
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know what's worse being told Okay, uh gup and shut down,
you're non essential, go home or you're essential go to work,
but we're not going to pay you. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Okay, and you mentioned the outsized influence of AOC on
this whole decision process. I you know, for some reason,
I thought Chuck Schumer was up for re election in
the next few years. He's not up for election until
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
See, so, I mean he's.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Got another three years before he even has to start
thinking about that, and by then he'll be seventy seven.
But apparently he's moving forward with the idea that he's
got to put AOC down now to make sure she
doesn't have any inroads on his seat come twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Or maybe this is Chuck Schumer's way of trying to
put down the whole left extremist wing of the party
and their influence. True truth of the matter it Yeah,
in three years, when Chuck Schumer is seventy eight, that
party is going to probably get a point where they're
not going to vote for anybody at over the age
of forty five anyway. So we'll hold the rest of
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the country hostage because Chucky wants to serve another term
in the Senate. Okay, listen, you know who gets blamed
for this. We mentioned earlier, there was a poll before
the shutdown, New York Times poll that indicated two thirds
of people in this country are going to blame the
Democrats for this. They're wanting to blame the Republicans for it.
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But here's the rub. The Republicans had a budget plan. Okay,
maybe everything in there you didn't agree with, but they
had a budget, they had a bill, and it's the
Democrats who voted it down and forced the government shut down.
So you know who takes to blame for this. Maybe
this will bring, you know, another five to the table.
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Maybe it will. Now, the last shutdown we had twenty
eighteens and nearly seven years ago, that one lasted more
than a month. Do we expect this one to last
that long? Well, certainly there's that potential. But there will
be folks here and there are folks right now here
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in our state, lots of them who were affected by
this shutdown. You mentioned this yesterday. The partisan gap is
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wider than it's ever been. That comes into play here,
of course, and you just don't get the impression that
that gap is going to narrow ever. Really, And if
it doesn't, how many more times are we going to
play this game here. Healthcare is at the heart of this,
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those Obamacare subsidies, subsid stipends, the sub supplements, subsidies.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I mean you've always had idealists on one side and
the other who were clinging to, okay, we we can't
compromise on this. This is a core value of the party.
But then you've always had the people who said, okay,
it's best for the country if we find a way
to reach out and shake the other's hand and agree, okay,
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you do this, and I'll do this, you agree to that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We don't have those people anymore. No, No, this is
an example of that right there. You'd think they could
have come to some agreement both sides on this, but
as far as the Democrats are concerned, that's a non starter.
And oh yeah, by the way, also, so US taxpayers
paying to fund health care for people in this country
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illegally was also a non starter for the Democrats. They
want to keep doing that.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Coming up on seven fifteen and good morning to you
for Wednesday, the first day of the month of October.
I hope you're well. More on the partial government shutdown
coming up, we'll be talking about that again this morning, certainly,
but we've want to spend a few minutes and talk
about a story that yesterday when I had to bolt
out here early to if you you brought up in
the eight o'clock hour and had some very compelling audio
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of the father of the late Logan Federico, who testified
in front of Congress. This this, this story is now
getting national attention because of what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
An off topic. But I can't tell you how many
times I've seen this story reported as she was killed
in North Carolina. Yeah, I don't know how people keep
getting that wrong. Of course, there was a North Carolina
congresswoman who actually confused her with the woman in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, the Ukrainian refue Yes. Oh boy, uh well, you
remember the story all too well. Yeah, Logan Federico was
a North Carolinian. But she was here visiting friends over
to USC They were out enjoying themselves at evening, went
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back to the house over near the campus in the
middle of the night. The allegations are is that Alexander
Dickey broke into the home an executor for as far
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as been in for well not this e very good reason,
but for no good reason. Again, this is a guy now,
and we're talking about an arrest record that stretches well,
only a decade. And I say only a decade because
within the last ten years, this is a guy whose
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record includes nearly forty arrests.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, he's packed a lifetime of criminal work in these
last few years.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, at least twenty five of those fellony charges and
he's been convicted of numerous occasions. But all told, he
spent less than well just a little more than six
hundred days behind bars, So not quite two of those
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last ten years he was in a place where he
couldn't commit a crime. So take those two years out.
So in eight years, forty arrests. That again, at least
twenty five of those foun any charges, at a number
of convictions, and somehow inexplicably, this guy is walking the
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streets and he walks into that house and he executes
Logan Federico for no good reason. Yesterday, Ralph Norman called
for the State House to introduced articles of impeachment for
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Byron Gibson, the Fifth Circuit Solicitor. He said that Gibson
is well. He described neglect of duty of his actions
regarding the heinous murder of Logan Federico, and.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I guess he made it sound as if you know,
families desperately want information when something like this happens, keep
us posted. And the father says he's rarely heard from
the solicitor's office, with the exception of criticizing the father
for an interview he had given on Fox News.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, this happened in May. This killing was back in May,
so this wasn't even five months ago. Okay, I understand
that the prosecutor's office wants to put together a case
with zero holes in it. I can't imagine anybody any
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more than Byron Gibson wants to be sure now this
time around, this guy goes behind ours, either for the
rest of his life or where a life sends preferably
the second. That's me talking, not Gibson. So I understand
it takes time. You want to be sure all the
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teaser crossed and the eyes are dotted, but stay in
touch with the family. Okay, we don't know. I mean, gosh,
it happens to you, If it happened to you, to
your family, to your loved one, to your daughter, if
it happened to be I'd be on the phone every day.
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What's going on, what's the latest. Somebody in that office
should have been kept keeping in touch with him on
a regular basis now, So Norman, calling for the impeachment
of of Gibson. Gibbson's office responded, disputing the characteristic characterization
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the father is made of communications with his office. He
says that both he and members of the prosecutorial team
met with the Federico family and their legal counsel to
discuss the status of the case within days of Dickey's arrest. Okay,
that's fine, but well, what about since then? Well, Gibbson
claims that the staff has been in contact with the
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family on numerous occasions, including a phone call as recently,
says as September the eleventh. Alan Wilson responding the attorney General,
saying that law enforcement partners involved in this case are
committed to delivering justice and that the office will provide
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updates as soon as they're available. David Pascoe, who's running
for Attorney General, says he's met personally with the family
and says the system failed Logan and the Federico family
Pamela Evatt issuing a statement criticizing our failed justice system,
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that this is where the focus needs to be here. Okay,
is in somewhat of a dispute as to whether or
not the Fifth Circuits Slicitor's Office has been staying in
constant contact with the Federico family. The family says no,
the office says yes, that's one thing, But the focus
needs to be on how a guy in ten years
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racks up forty arrests, twenty five of them felony arrests,
and stay on this he stays on the streets. Nancy
Mace used the occasion to attack Wilson personally, accusing him
of doing nothing to prosecute the case. Okay, this isn't well.
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This is the solicitor's job. Which I hate to see,
is you know, a heinous tragy like this is being
used to score political points.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You just read statements from every politician that's running for governor.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, so I don't know where the truth is on
this one. As far as the communication back and forth
between the family and the Fifth Circuit Solicitor's office. I
have no idea what what the what the real story
is there? But what what the dad had to say?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I mean something set Obviously he's upset that his daughter
was killed, but in addition to that, something set him off,
and it seems to be the fact that he's not
hearing enough.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah. I can't imagine you just make this up.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yeah, I mean, we know the wheels of justice move
fairly slowly, but you to hang with the family and
let them know at least where you where, where things
are going.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And for crying out loud, moving forward. If we've got
people like this guy on the streets right now, with
his record, his background, get them off the streets or
somebody's gonna die.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
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Speaker 2 (29:35):
Today.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
At my direction, each service will ensure that every requirement
for every combat MOS, for every designated combat arms position
returns to the highest male standard only.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Because this job is life or death. It is seven
for morning. Okay, So this is what this was all about. Yesterday,
the big get together in Quantico. You had all the generals,
all the admirals called together in one room and uh.
Pete Hagsath, the Secretary of now War, and President Trump
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both addressed the uh, the gathered mass of high ranking
individuals in our nations military. This job is life or death.
Standards must be met. I don't know why this is controversial. Yeah,
I don't know either.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I really don't now, except for the fact that the
message that accompanied it was, you know, all the woke.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Stuff is gone. Yeah, yeah, that's so that. I get it.
I get why that's contra It shouldn't be, but I
get why it is. Okay, but uh why all right,
we can go back to this old argument, you know,
should women be allowed in combat positions? It's a matter
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of life and death, all right? Is that simple? This
is misogynist or anything like that. This is simply that
it doesn't matter who it is, male or female. If
you are in a role on the front lines in
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our nation's military, not only are you defending our country,
you're defending yourself and you're you're you're your fellow soldiers.
I'm sorry, you know, Uh, David and Goliath was a
story in the Bible. Okay that that work there all
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right here today on a on a on a battlefield
with human beings, but don't work. David is going to
get deep sixed every time. So why it's controversial that?
Uh again, and not just hags have this talking about
you got to meet the highest male sand and that
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that that includes male soldiers as well. You know the
idea of having a different set of standards for male
and female when it comes to fitness levels. Well, that's
wonderfully politically correct and all that on a battlefield that
don't work, but that is somehow controversial. Hag Zeth was
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didn't pull any punches yesterday. Oh and by the way,
you know, some of those generals and adimals in the
room you might want to, you know, do a little
peata yourself.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yeah, well you're at it right. And it wasn't just fitness,
it was grooming too. He talked about you know, the
the long hair and the beards and mustaches, and you
know it's it's discipline.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, it's the look of discipline. You don't win with
an undisciplined let him do what.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
They want, let them hang out where they want.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And it doesn't happen. Now, the truth of the matter
is is that moving forward, wars aren't going to be
the wars we traditionally think wars are. True, but still
you need a fighting force that is ready and able
to take care of business. And you know, you said
what you want about Pete Haggs that I still you know,
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I'm still not enamored with the pick quite honestly, but
say what you want. He gets it. He understands it
because he was he was there. Okay, he was there.
He understands it. And I applaud him for telling our
nation's military commanders, a bunch of them, get your ship
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in shape. We're going to fight wars. We're going to
fight him to win him. And that's going to mean
that we have to have people that are capable of
doing just that.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
And the people at the top will be there because
of merit and not because of anything else exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So it's a return to well the sort of ideas
that has that have won us wars in the past.
And I got no problem with that. None of us
should have any problem with that. I mean, come on, now,
the President was also there and he spoke for about
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an hour yesterday, but some different topics.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
We're under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy,
but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.
At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take
them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are
under invasion from within.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay, Now, speaking of controversial there, that's going to be controversy,
and it already is as well. But the President talked
about using US cities as a as a training crown,
so to speak. I didn't know what he was talking
about there. Yeah, but an invasion from within mean who, Well,
(35:16):
that's that's that's the question. Okay. Now, is an invasion
from within from foreign terrorists, foreign adversaries? Is an invasion
from within from extreme leftists Antifa? And and that ill? Okay,
that we're talking about two different stories here that require
two different approaches. I'm gonna pretty much guess that most
(35:44):
of those military higher ups in the room probably mixed
reaction to that, depending again on who the President's referring
to here. So this was not well. And then again,
they didn't. I did not take off the table the
(36:07):
idea of, you know, getting the ranks at the top.
But this was not some sort of a mass firing
of it yesterday of generals and admirals. But I I'm
trying to think back, you know, in my time here
on this planet, at least when I was old enough
to pay attention to such things. I don't really recall
(36:31):
somebody at Hexath's position ever calling it together all our
nations military leaders and addressing them as he did yesterday. Yeah,
I can't think of anything like this.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
It may have happened, but it was even more odd
that it happened right before we shut down the government.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
But get in there was that, So the reaction from
the leaders to the message. I gotta tell you, if
there's a single admiral or general in that room yesterday
that disagrees with Hegxeth's directive that our fighting force needs
(37:14):
to be at a top fitness level in order to
carry out their mission, then they should probably go ahead
and quit. Yeah, you'd be stupid to say that out loud.
I'm sure there were a few of them, but I
think they'll keep their mouths quiet on that one. They
better now on what Trump had to say. He said
(37:36):
a lot, but specifically on you know that you know,
we were fighting a war from within. I suspect that,
whether they verbalize or not, drew some very mixed reaction,
in particular if they felt like Trump was talking about,
(37:57):
for lack of a better term, political enemies. Okay, even
if we are talking about organizations like Antifa and their ILK,
I would venture to say that a lot of those
people in the room, those men and women in that
room yesterday, are uncomfortable with the idea of using the
(38:18):
military against American citizens. Again, if we're talking about foreign
adversaries that are attacking our country from within, that's one thing.
But we're talking about American citizens. I suspect they had
some very different ideas about that. Okay. I was glad
to see that was televised in its entirety. Yes, you know,
(38:39):
I was wondering, we're gonna get we're gonna be privy
to what gets said here or not? Well, we were.
I guess we should have known that when when we
found out the Trump was gonna address them as well,
that would sort of be open to the public. On that.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
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Speaker 2 (39:03):
They blocked on two votes.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
We're gonna have another vote tomorrow and they'll probably try
and block it again. But I think people are going
to start cracking because they're going to realize this is
a losing hand.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
There's going to be a crescendo as through the beginning
of October, the vast majority of Americans get those bills,
and they're going to say, what the heck are we
going to do? We need healthcare, but we can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Stay fifteen and the government is officially partially shut down.
We're now at an hour number eight of the partial
government shut down. Good Morning is Wednesday, October first, John Thune,
Chuck Schumer there the Senate leaders. Thun last night referring
to two votes taken, probably another one today, And of
course Chucky is he wasn't talking about the bills that
(39:47):
folks who have been furloughed now are going to get
and wonder how they're going to pay him. He was
talking about, you know, the bills folks are going to
get that are on the Obamacare, which at least accord
of their estimation. Estimate, yeah, estimation either right, word, CNBC says,
folks who are getting those subsidies right now could see
(40:09):
their healthcare bills well jump up one hundred and fourteen
percent or more. Actually yeah, more than double. So this
is the sticking point in all this, these subsidies for
Obamacare that were put into effect during the pandemic and
are still in effect. And like we always say, this
(40:31):
is the problem. When the government gives something, it's very
difficult to take it away. Right. So if if you're
getting subsidies right now, you the average American getting these
is they're paying about eight hundred and eighty eight dollars
a year for Obamacare, that would jump up to a
(40:53):
little over nineteen hundred dollars dollars a year according to
some of the analysts. I don't know that's how exactly
that is. But this is what Democrats continue to push for,
is the enhanced premium tax credits. But that also includes
(41:15):
health care for anybody here in this country, whether they're
here legally or not.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Well, you can't get it legally, you can't get healthcare
if you're here illegally. I mean you that that's against
the law.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Somehow it's being done. Well, somehow it's being done.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
I know our side is saying that, but without a
whole lot of evidence. Well, we know that's not that's
not the sticking point. Well, yeah, the Republicans, I mean
some of the leaders are like like to tell you that,
but that's that's not the sticking point. You hit on
it the first time. We've got a healthcare system we
can't afford right now. Yeah, and Democrats want to just
keep blowing up that number.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
And you know what this is. This is like you
you got a kid, who's who's who's you know, got
behavioral issues, but you don't want to correct them, You
just keep enabling them. And this is what we're doing
the healthcare system in this country. Oh well, let's not
let's not try to get to the root problem of
(42:17):
why it's so expensive. Let's just keep giving people money
so they could afford it. Well, you know, we're we're
spiraling down that drain rapidly here. And I don't know
what the answer is. I don't know how you get there,
but I mean it's well, we've all heard the stories.
(42:39):
You've probably done it too. You have a hospital stay
and what they charge you for an aspirin? It's crazy, man.
You thought we were paying ridiculous amounts of money for
toilets on airplanes in the military. Yeah, what do you
see what you get charged for an aspir in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
There's wasting fraud everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
So healthcare is a sticking point here. Now. The last
shutdown we had it was almost seven years ago. It
lasted what about four weeks? Do we expect this to
go that long? I don't know. You had three Democrats
(43:21):
in the Senate vote with Republicans to keep the government open.
Last night they got to what fifty five? I guess
it was, you need to get to sixty so five shy?
You got three last night? Will five Democrats get squirrely
(43:44):
enough over the next number of days to say, okay,
let's stop this. And there's this other backstory here too.
Don't forget that. It wasn't that long ago that Chuck
Schumer went along with a spending plan and the extreme left,
the aocs of the world, hammered him over it, and
(44:05):
he didn't want that to happen again. Okay, Chuck Schumer,
who wants to run for another term of the Senate,
who's already you know, a little older than dirt, wants
to spend another six years till he is, in fact
older than dirt. So he didn't want to. He didn't
(44:29):
want to. He don't. He didn't want to give in
on this one. What is the real reason? Is it
because of healthcare? Is it because of the AOC threat?
I don't know. But now, before this shutdown, the New
York Times took a poll and that poll indicated the
voters had blamed well both parties, and rightfully so. But
(44:52):
nearly two thirds said that Democrats in Congress should not
force a federal government shutdown, nearly two thirds.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
And we know the longer shutdown lasts, the more the
stronger those feelings get. Yes, so maybe that will lead
some Democrats to look at this and say, this isn't
really going to help if we want to win the midterms.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Yeah, but in this poll, even forty three percent of
those who said they were Democrats, forty three percent said
they shouldn't shut the government down. Yeah, it's and of
course both sides are going to try to paint this
as it's the other side issue, right, But when the
rubber hits the road, what the American public is going
to remember is, okay, wait a minute. We came to
the brink. The Republicans offered a spending bill. It was
(45:47):
the Democrats who said, no.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
That's why you hear these politicians calling it, you know,
Donald Trump's shutdown or Chuck Schumer's shutdown. Sure, yeah, I
mean they're trying to kind of solidify that idea in
your mind so that when you do go to the
polls eventually you blame.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
The other party. Sure, this is part of the game.
Now Here in South Carolina, we're some twenty five thousand
federal workers. We're talking about civilians now as part of
the federal workforce, about twenty five thousand. Most of those
(46:29):
are you maybe one up here at home today. You're
not getting a paycheck. Well, the shutdown is over, you will.
But there's also been this discussion that that Trump has
said several times with of course the last several weeks,
might take this opportunity to actually shrink the federal workforce.
(46:50):
Maybe some of these jobs don't come back. It's you
know those two point zero so to speak.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Yeah, I would think you would be a little nervous
if you were labeled none as non essential.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Yeah, and here's the rub. If you're an essential employee,
you've got to be at work today, but you ain't
getting paid either. And we've got about thirty four thousand
active military in this state and other essentially deemed essential
workers who are on the job today and not going
to be collecting a paycheck. Okay, when all this is over,
(47:24):
whenever that is, you'll get your pay. But the meantime,
you know, they always talk about how you should have,
you know whatever, six months of saving set aside. I guess,
I guess if you're a federal worker, you might want
to make it a year's worth if you can. You
never known this kind of thing is going to drop
on you, right, all right, So we're in an hour
eight now the partial government shut down again. Essential services continue.
(47:46):
If you're on Social Security, you'll continue to get your
your I say, your check. I guess I'm not sitting
payer checks anymore, are they? All that is electronically depositive now, so,
but that that will continue. All there could be some heckups.
Certainly hear about it, look up to the country, talk
about it. This is pure evil.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
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Speaker 2 (48:20):
Eight forty one. Now final thoughts for Wednesday, October one.
Here we go today, the first day of the new month.
Testimony on a legislation that would result, if passed, in
a ban of almost all abortions in our state begins today.
(48:40):
All right, so here we go again. Senate subcommittee is
going to hear arguments this morning. Now, this is just
the first of a long process to potentially pass more restrictions,
discussions of outlawing abortions even before weeks.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
No exceptions for rape or incest, right, exactly, just the
health of the mother.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, would ban possession on abortion medications. I mean it
would basically be, yeah that unless you as the mother,
unless your health is at risk, then an abortion would
be ilegal. I don't know that, uh, you know, regardless
(49:30):
of my views on abortion, which I think you know
they are, I don't know that the state House will
will pass something this restrictive. I'm thinking not. But if if,
if this this, this, this bill is gonna want to
(49:52):
eat up a bunch of a big chunk of the
next legislative session more than likely. So we'll see where
it goes. We'll wait until then to find out. State
paper reporting that days after a TV reporter requested exit
interviews from employees who left the City of Casey, that
(50:13):
the city hired a communications.
Speaker 5 (50:16):
Firm, a different one than the one they're paying right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
To well, to promote the police department. It's been a
revolving door in the City of Casey for whatever the reason.
But so tax more than twenty six thousand dollars in
taxpayer money was spent with an outside confirm to promote
(50:44):
the police department of the City of Casey.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
They were putting out social media videos to put a
positive spin on the police department, hoping to combat a
negative TV story that never came out, right.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, that negative TV story never air, Okay, And I'm sorry.
You know, these PR departments, PR firms, you know, a
lot of them do really good work, and some of
them will. You gotta wonder. And I'm not passinating any
judgment on this particular one n P strategy. I don't
really know anything about them, but you know, with a smartphone.
(51:29):
That's all you need these days is a smartphone. You
could make your own videos, and there's there's free software
out there, by the way that you could use to
edit them. It's not real difficult anymore.
Speaker 5 (51:43):
Well, I've got to think the PR firm that they
do employ led by the spokesperson for the city.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah that one.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
Yeah, who also happens to be the spokesperson for IRMO.
But that's another story. You would think that she would
go back and say, you know what, I could have
done all this, and we could have. We could have
You could have spent a little bit more money with
me and I could have done it all. But at
what point, I mean, this was crisis. This was considered
(52:10):
crisis emergency PR mode over one TV story that made
that you didn't even know how it was going to
turn out yet and it turned out it didn't turn
out at all?
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Night or is this you realizing that, wow, we really
stepped in at this time, and if so, what did
you step in?
Speaker 5 (52:32):
Yeah, Okay, there's this there's way too much dysfunction, lots.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Of drama in the city of Casey. What a beautiful
and all the great things happening over there, and it
gets overshadowed by this sort of thing. I saw this
spot a few minutes ago. As a matter of fact,
I did this morning. Uh rom Ready, the Dojesse founder,
has launched a thirty second spot and it is running
(52:57):
stay wide now on Fox News. Saw this morning and
also buying digital space for this thirty second spot entitled
South Carolina's Government is Broken. In the spot, you'll hear
Ready say, we are the highest taxed red state in America,
but we rank at the bottom of income, education, roads,
(53:17):
and public safety. Government is rich and powerful, but we
the citizens are a weak and poor. Not what our
founders intended. He's talking about spending somewhere about a million
dollars over the coming weeks. Okay, that will get the
attention of some folks, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
I noticed the Freedom Caucus and the Republican Caucus. We're
going at it again on social media yesterday. Oh and
you wonder, I mean, with that much we just talked
about dysfunction, and casey, with that much dysfunction between the
quote unquote ruling party in this state, I mean a
lot of people look at what this doge South Carolina's
(53:58):
intent is and think, you know, it's not that far off.
It's things are broken around here.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
You there may be some real there, maybe some real
legs of this thing, quite possibly. White House yesterday and
I don't know this. I don't know if there was
time to coincide with the government shut down over healthcare
or whatever, but the White House unveiling a direct to
consumer website to buy medications. They announced the deal with
(54:27):
Pfizer to lower the prices of meds and for Phiser
to drop in seventy billion in manufacturing in our country.
So that's a win win right there. On the flip side,
Trump's not going to tariff Pfiser. They'll get the most
favored nation pricing. They're calling this trump RX. Okay, I'm
(54:49):
happy with this until I get to that point right there.
Don't know, come on, I guess had Obamacare, so why
not this. But that's a great move. You talk about
insanity here a private college in Portland, Oregon. Didn't I
say more? Yeah, you can stop right there. Yeah, told
(55:10):
a senior security official on campus that he harmed its
reputation with donors and with the public. How he helped
the FBI catch a leftist riot suspect that just happened
to be an alum of the school read college. They
fired the guy for it. Okay, so head of security
(55:32):
helps the FBI capture a leftist riot suspect who just
happened to be an alum of the school. He gets
fired for it because the school says, you've heard our
reputation with the donors in the public, and you know
what truth of the matter is. It's Portland, Orgon. They're
probably right in that assertation. Yeah, maybe probably right. Again,
that was a business decision on their part. They don't
(55:54):
want to be known for law and order. They know
that's bad for business in the Pacific Northwest. And I'm
going to say this because this is not aimed at
being a criticism of Joe Biden, but at the people
around him that want him to run for another term. Here,
they've now underarth not cards from the Biden era that
show how the administration, what great links they went to
(56:18):
to prop up his memory cards, No cards with the
pictures and names of people like Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer,
Barack Obama. Wow, wow, is right. And I talked to
(56:44):
other day about that to bridge in China that open
is open now that bridge it's two thousand plus feet
above the river gorge in that canyon, the one that
I said, you know, I would never cross. Well, it
turns out that bridge takes what was a two hour
commute from one side of the Canye or the other
down to two minutes. Oh wow, so it's valuable. I'm
(57:07):
still not buying it, though, I'll take the two hours
I'm Jesus right, he yet America and Jerry Hollen for
regious fination.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
God, yes is wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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We're glad to have you back. Yeah. I had a
school early yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I do that that once a year physical thing which
apparently only scheduled like at eight thirty of the morning.
Is that a rule? Is that written somewhere you can
only do physicals at eight thirty in the morning.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
I think doctors want to get it out of the
way so they can get onto their real patients, the
real patients.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
He guess it right, So yeah, get to be back
with you. We're open the government, not all of it
is as the shutdown is the part part okay, partial,
not everything. The partial shutdown is underway here.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
How would you like to be working for the federal
government today and you're told, well, you can stay at
home because you're a non essential worker. And then in
the next report you hear the OMB director saying, you
know what, this is a good chance for us to
look at everyone who is and isn't essential to federal government.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And they've been talking about that for a couple of
weeks leading up to this. Doose part two. Yeah, the
possibility because here's the rub for the Democrats. When them
it shuts down, whoever the president is, well, they're there,
their powers tend to expand here. And this is what
(02:09):
we're going to see. Now, whether we see this well
we see government workers actually lose their jobs over this
shutdown or not, well, we'll find out. But yeah, I mean,
we've got a lot of federal government workers around here.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
And it's hard to argue you're I mean, you're a
valuable part of the government process. If you've been labeled
non essential and sent home.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
M well, and you have to be careful because it's okay,
you know, essential workers. You know, I know, it's like
safety officials, life or death stuff, right, you know, ye
air traffic controllers, yeahda yeada, YadA, Just because you're not
one of those doesn't make you non essential. But that's
(02:53):
the that's the broad definition.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
But there is a lot of pork out there, and
this is one more opportunity, like Doze earlier, to sure
weed through the government and see who really is working
and who isn't.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Which will produce another furity of lawsuits and court actions
and you know, judges getting involved in everything else. So yeah,
you're right those two point zero here. So we'll talk
about again what it means for us here in South Carolina.
We'll get into that today, and we'll be talking to
you about on the national of how all this came
to be once again and what the prospects are to
get things open back up again. All right. Finally, finally,
(03:29):
the FCC has approved this proposal that will allow states
and local prisons here in South Carolina and across the
country to block illegal cell phone usage by inmates. That
vote was unanimous, by the way, thank you. Okay, So
finally the FCC standing up to these cell phone lobbies again.
(03:52):
We were talking last week to the AG about this.
They've always allowed the federal institutions to do this. It's
the same techn you know, the same technology at state
prisons and why the FCC would't allow state lock ups
to do it. It's still beyond me, but that now
is changing, and this is bad news for some of
(04:14):
these thugs behind bars who've been continue to run their
operations using illegal cell phones. Not anymore. When this gets implemented.
We wait to see. We asked that question last week
of the Attorney General. But I'm sure the doc has
had contingency plans for this and hopefully they'll get it
done quick. Ralph Norman is calling for Brian Excuse me
(04:38):
how we say that Byron Gibson not to be impeached
the Fifth Circuits Solicitor. This or something I know you
talked about after I left yesterday, mister Thompson. Yes, that
was the murder of Logan Federico, which is making a
lot of national news right now thanks to her father. Yes,
we'll talk more about this. Remember the man behind Borrows
(05:02):
charged with a killing Alexander Dickey. You talk about a
long rap sheet, then there's this one right career criminal. Yeah,
and why he was out walking the streets. It's unimaginable
how this could have happened. So we'll talk a bit
more about that. A new total abortion ban has been
(05:22):
proposed in our state. Six restrictions are being weighed this
new bill. I guess here we go again. In the
next session. We'll discuss what those are. State paper breaking
the news that the city of Casey paid, as the
headline says, thousands for a spin job when a reporter
asked for police department records, that the city of Casey
(05:44):
paid more than twenty six thousand dollars to a communications
firm for a campaign to promote its police department. This
after a reporter's public records request. Well, well, the city
got concerned about, well a negative news store coming from
those documents.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So how could a city be so hyper sensitive about
negative publicity and yet invite so much negative publicity. Casey's
not a big place, No it's not. And there are
a lot of good things going on there right.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Now, fabulous things going on. Geez.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
The government dysfunction is I mean, it's worthy of a
big city.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Seems to be, doesn't it. All Right, So now at
the national level, this government shutdown again, a partial shutdown,
that midlight, midnight funny deadline passed. Is Chuck Schumer and
the Democrats, not all or three Democrats that Buck Schumer
on this one, and it's how many more do we need?
Three more? Something like that. I mean, it's close close
(06:47):
enough to where you might think this thing could gud
get done the next day or two, although some are
thinking of maybe more like three or four weeks. First
government shutdown now in some five years, it's under way now. Again,
the sticking point here has been healthcare. The Democrats want, well,
(07:07):
these are healthcare subsidies from Obamacare for all, whether you're
here in this country legally or not. But they are
holding hostage Jose Americans who are here legally and and
do have it. Now, these subsidies that have been in
effect since the pandemic, they go away here and that's
(07:29):
what this funding bill is all about. You know. On
the other side of this thing, then uh, you know,
premiums well could well more than double. This is again
for you know, tax paying American citizens. Now they've already
done some quick flash polling on this New York Times
senapol showing that well that that that that voters would
(07:55):
blame Republicans and Trump as well as Democrats. But nearly
two thirds in this poll say that Democrats in Congress
should not force a federal government shutdown. This was prior
to this shutdown announced last night. So is this a
Schumer shutdown? I would call it an AOC shutdown, but
(08:15):
it looks like the Democrats, at least core to that pole,
will get the blame for it. So yeah, we are
again is a fact that we are funding healthcare for
illegal aliens in this country and the Democrats are fighting
to keep that. I know they're fighting to keep the
subsidies for everybody else too, But this is all balled
up in there. You'd think they could kind of come
up with a compromise here, all right, Well, we'll keep
(08:38):
the subsidies for American citizens, but we'll ditch the free
healthcare for people who aren't well anyway. All right, So,
as it turns out, it was a PEP rally. It
was a getting your face moment. It was a hey,
let's get back to the whole warry Rethos thing. And
that was what this meeting at the at Quantico was yesterday.
As that Pete Haggs hath called together all the generals
(08:59):
and admirals from around the world, uh for for for this,
uh this this these speeches, hag Jeff spoke declaring a
war on woke military policies. Uh, the job, he says,
his life or death standards must be met reins reinstitation, reinstatating, uh,
reinstating standard. I mean we're training people to be on
(09:21):
the battlefield. Yeah, in a life and death situation. Why
would we not want people in the best shape, with
the best opportunity to win and save their own lives
in the process. And that includes the the generals in
the A and the generals and the admirals. Yeah, get
in shape, he says. Trump spoke for what about an
hour in typical you know, rambling Trump stuff. You know,
I watched a little bit of that was I was
(09:42):
waiting on my appointment yesterday. But among other things, Uh,
he made a call for using US cities as a
training ground for armed forces. Well, I've talked more about that,
I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Meantime, the President rolling out well what they're calling Trump
r X. That's a deal with a Pfizer, a direct
to consumer website to buy medications at lower prices. Now
exactly how much, Laura, we don't know. The White House
also announced a good deal with Phizer to lower prices
on its medications and at best seventy billion in New
(10:17):
US manufacturing. I like this, but honestly, don't call it
trump our X. I mean, come on just anyway, and
well the Turning Point USA event back in Utah, Yeah,
an evacuation ordered yesterday at Utah State University after a
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suspicious package was reported just ahead of time time for
that rally. Kind of figured out what happened in you
all right, friends, We got that working. We got more
brewin here on this. It's the Wednesday morning, October first
edition of Columbia's Morning News. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2 (11:17):
Six forty one. We'll get to this shutdown in a second.
But I mentioned in the rundown that finally has happened,
and it was in a unanimous vote yesterday, thankfully, finally,
as the Federal Communications Commission passes a rule that will
allow state and local correction facilities to jam illegal cell
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phone use. Thank you. Okay, We've had folks in the state,
Brian Sterling, who was used to be the head of
the Apartment Corrections, the Attorney General, Alan Wilson, and others
who have been non stop fighting for years to make
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this happen. And again the apparently the cell phone lobby
is a very powerful lobby and somehow they intimidated the
FCC to keep from doing this. But again, as we
always talked about when we brought this subject up, what
didn't make any sense at all is that the federal
government and their lockups they were allowed to do this.
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It's the same technology. What do they think? Or maybe
it's maybe it was that well, you know, location wise,
there's a lot fewer federal lockups in the our state
and local which is true. And the concern was apparently
always well, it could impact sell signals for folks that
live close by, but they demonstrated the past that that's
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not been the case. So the smuggling these contraband cell
phones into prison walls not gonna do any good anymore.
And the ability of the individuals incarcerated to continue to
run their businesses or even to call hits on people
as we've had here happened here in South Carolina that
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will come to an end with this. So that unanimous
vote yesterday the state and local president. They don't have
to do this. It's voluntary and they're not telling you
got to do it. But I can't imagine too many
that won't want to. Now it may be a cost
issue for some local municipalities, but certainly the state wide level,
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expect that to be instituted as soon as possible. All right,
So now government shutdown midnight last night. Again the final
I think you asked a question earlier, mister Thompson, it
would you need five more votes in the Senate? That
was what was needed last night. Fifty five voted to
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continue funding the government. That included three Democrats who did
not side with Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Cassio Cortes, who's
having an outsized influence on this discussion. I say, but
let's whole another story with a Democrat party. So five
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votes short of keeping the government operating, you needed sixty,
you got fifty five. And I think I mentioned earlier,
first government shut down in five years, Yeah, it's more
like sevens It's almost seven years since we last shut
down the government. So what happens. Well, we've got a
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lot of federal government workers here in our state, nearly
twenty five thousand, it's according to the Officer of Personnel Management,
So nearly twenty five thousand felleral employees could be affected.
Most of them will be unless they're deemed again essential.
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We've got some thirty four thousand active duty military members
who may be required to work without pay until the
government reopens. We've seen this before. Funding cuts could disrupt
the Women, Infant, and Children's Program, the WHIG program. States
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like ours may have to stop enrolling new applicants immediately
or almost immediately. Tourism big for our state, Well, national parks. Again,
a federal government shutdown, it's not going to cause a
shutdown of tourism in South Carolina. We have the national parks. Yeah,
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they're a draw, but they're not the big draw. Now.
Airports will continue to function, GSA agents, air traffic controllers,
those are essential workers. They'reosential workers, so they continue to work,
although they'll be working without getting paid. So I don't
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know what's worse being told Okay, uh gup and shut down,
you're non essential, go home or you're essential go to work,
but we're not going to pay you. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Okay, and you mentioned the outsized influence of AOC on
this whole decision process. I you know, for some reason,
I thought Chuck Schumer was up for re election in
the next few years. He's not up for election until
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
See, so, I mean he's.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Got another three years before he even has to start
thinking about that, and by then he'll be seventy seven.
But apparently he's moving forward with the idea that he's
got to put AOC down now to make sure she
doesn't have any inroads on his seat come twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Or maybe this is Chuck Schumer's way of trying to
put down the whole left extremist wing of the party
and their influence. True truth of the matter it Yeah,
in three years, when Chuck Schumer is seventy eight, that
party is going to probably get a point where they're
not going to vote for anybody at over the age
of forty five anyway. So we'll hold the rest of
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the country hostage because Chucky wants to serve another term
in the Senate. Okay, listen, you know who gets blamed
for this. We mentioned earlier, there was a poll before
the shutdown, New York Times poll that indicated two thirds
of people in this country are going to blame the
Democrats for this. They're wanting to blame the Republicans for it.
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But here's the rub. The Republicans had a budget plan. Okay,
maybe everything in there you didn't agree with, but they
had a budget, they had a bill, and it's the
Democrats who voted it down and forced the government shut down.
So you know who takes to blame for this. Maybe
this will bring, you know, another five to the table.
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Maybe it will. Now, the last shutdown we had twenty
eighteens and nearly seven years ago, that one lasted more
than a month. Do we expect this one to last
that long? Well, certainly there's that potential. But there will
be folks here and there are folks right now here
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in our state, lots of them who were affected by
this shutdown. You mentioned this yesterday. The partisan gap is
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wider than it's ever been. That comes into play here,
of course, and you just don't get the impression that
that gap is going to narrow ever. Really, And if
it doesn't, how many more times are we going to
play this game here. Healthcare is at the heart of this,
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those Obamacare subsidies, subsid stipends, the sub supplements, subsidies.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I mean you've always had idealists on one side and
the other who were clinging to, okay, we we can't
compromise on this. This is a core value of the party.
But then you've always had the people who said, okay,
it's best for the country if we find a way
to reach out and shake the other's hand and agree, okay,
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you do this, and I'll do this, you agree to that.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We don't have those people anymore. No, No, this is
an example of that right there. You'd think they could
have come to some agreement both sides on this, but
as far as the Democrats are concerned, that's a non starter.
And oh yeah, by the way, also, so US taxpayers
paying to fund health care for people in this country
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illegally was also a non starter for the Democrats. They
want to keep doing that.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
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Speaker 2 (20:22):
Coming up on seven fifteen and good morning to you
for Wednesday, the first day of the month of October.
I hope you're well. More on the partial government shutdown
coming up, we'll be talking about that again this morning, certainly,
but we've want to spend a few minutes and talk
about a story that yesterday when I had to bolt
out here early to if you you brought up in
the eight o'clock hour and had some very compelling audio
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of the father of the late Logan Federico, who testified
in front of Congress. This this, this story is now
getting national attention because of what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
An off topic. But I can't tell you how many
times I've seen this story reported as she was killed
in North Carolina. Yeah, I don't know how people keep
getting that wrong. Of course, there was a North Carolina
congresswoman who actually confused her with the woman in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, the Ukrainian refue Yes. Oh boy, uh well, you
remember the story all too well. Yeah, Logan Federico was
a North Carolinian. But she was here visiting friends over
to USC They were out enjoying themselves at evening, went
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back to the house over near the campus in the
middle of the night. The allegations are is that Alexander
Dickey broke into the home an executor for as far
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as been in for well not this e very good reason,
but for no good reason. Again, this is a guy now,
and we're talking about an arrest record that stretches well,
only a decade. And I say only a decade because
within the last ten years, this is a guy whose
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record includes nearly forty arrests.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, he's packed a lifetime of criminal work in these
last few years.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, at least twenty five of those fellony charges and
he's been convicted of numerous occasions. But all told, he
spent less than well just a little more than six
hundred days behind bars, So not quite two of those
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last ten years he was in a place where he
couldn't commit a crime. So take those two years out.
So in eight years, forty arrests. That again, at least
twenty five of those foun any charges, at a number
of convictions, and somehow inexplicably, this guy is walking the
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streets and he walks into that house and he executes
Logan Federico for no good reason. Yesterday, Ralph Norman called
for the State House to introduced articles of impeachment for
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Byron Gibson, the Fifth Circuit Solicitor. He said that Gibson
is well. He described neglect of duty of his actions
regarding the heinous murder of Logan Federico, and.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I guess he made it sound as if you know,
families desperately want information when something like this happens, keep
us posted. And the father says he's rarely heard from
the solicitor's office, with the exception of criticizing the father
for an interview he had given on Fox News.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, this happened in May. This killing was back in May,
so this wasn't even five months ago. Okay, I understand
that the prosecutor's office wants to put together a case
with zero holes in it. I can't imagine anybody any
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more than Byron Gibson wants to be sure now this
time around, this guy goes behind ours, either for the
rest of his life or where a life sends preferably
the second. That's me talking, not Gibson. So I understand
it takes time. You want to be sure all the
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teaser crossed and the eyes are dotted, but stay in
touch with the family. Okay, we don't know. I mean, gosh,
it happens to you, If it happened to you, to
your family, to your loved one, to your daughter, if
it happened to be I'd be on the phone every day.
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What's going on, what's the latest. Somebody in that office
should have been kept keeping in touch with him on
a regular basis now, So Norman, calling for the impeachment
of of Gibson. Gibbson's office responded, disputing the characteristic characterization
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the father is made of communications with his office. He
says that both he and members of the prosecutorial team
met with the Federico family and their legal counsel to
discuss the status of the case within days of Dickey's arrest. Okay,
that's fine, but well, what about since then? Well, Gibbson
claims that the staff has been in contact with the
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family on numerous occasions, including a phone call as recently,
says as September the eleventh. Alan Wilson responding the attorney General,
saying that law enforcement partners involved in this case are
committed to delivering justice and that the office will provide
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updates as soon as they're available. David Pascoe, who's running
for Attorney General, says he's met personally with the family
and says the system failed Logan and the Federico family
Pamela Evatt issuing a statement criticizing our failed justice system,
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that this is where the focus needs to be here. Okay,
is in somewhat of a dispute as to whether or
not the Fifth Circuits Slicitor's Office has been staying in
constant contact with the Federico family. The family says no,
the office says yes, that's one thing, But the focus
needs to be on how a guy in ten years
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racks up forty arrests, twenty five of them felony arrests,
and stay on this he stays on the streets. Nancy
Mace used the occasion to attack Wilson personally, accusing him
of doing nothing to prosecute the case. Okay, this isn't well.
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This is the solicitor's job. Which I hate to see,
is you know, a heinous tragy like this is being
used to score political points.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You just read statements from every politician that's running for governor.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, so I don't know where the truth is on
this one. As far as the communication back and forth
between the family and the Fifth Circuit Solicitor's office. I
have no idea what what the what the real story
is there? But what what the dad had to say?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
I mean something set Obviously he's upset that his daughter
was killed, but in addition to that, something set him off,
and it seems to be the fact that he's not
hearing enough.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah. I can't imagine you just make this up.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yeah, I mean, we know the wheels of justice move
fairly slowly, but you to hang with the family and
let them know at least where you where, where things
are going.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And for crying out loud, moving forward. If we've got
people like this guy on the streets right now, with
his record, his background, get them off the streets or
somebody's gonna die.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
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Speaker 2 (29:35):
Today.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
At my direction, each service will ensure that every requirement
for every combat MOS, for every designated combat arms position
returns to the highest male standard only.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Because this job is life or death. It is seven
for morning. Okay, So this is what this was all about. Yesterday,
the big get together in Quantico. You had all the generals,
all the admirals called together in one room and uh.
Pete Hagsath, the Secretary of now War, and President Trump
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both addressed the uh, the gathered mass of high ranking
individuals in our nations military. This job is life or death.
Standards must be met. I don't know why this is controversial. Yeah,
I don't know either.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I really don't now, except for the fact that the
message that accompanied it was, you know, all the woke.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Stuff is gone. Yeah, yeah, that's so that. I get it.
I get why that's contra It shouldn't be, but I
get why it is. Okay, but uh why all right,
we can go back to this old argument, you know,
should women be allowed in combat positions? It's a matter
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of life and death, all right? Is that simple? This
is misogynist or anything like that. This is simply that
it doesn't matter who it is, male or female. If
you are in a role on the front lines in
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our nation's military, not only are you defending our country,
you're defending yourself and you're you're you're your fellow soldiers.
I'm sorry, you know, Uh, David and Goliath was a
story in the Bible. Okay that that work there all
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right here today on a on a on a battlefield
with human beings, but don't work. David is going to
get deep sixed every time. So why it's controversial that?
Uh again, and not just hags have this talking about
you got to meet the highest male sand and that
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that that includes male soldiers as well. You know the
idea of having a different set of standards for male
and female when it comes to fitness levels. Well, that's
wonderfully politically correct and all that on a battlefield that
don't work, but that is somehow controversial. Hag Zeth was
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didn't pull any punches yesterday. Oh and by the way,
you know, some of those generals and adimals in the
room you might want to, you know, do a little
peata yourself.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yeah, well you're at it right. And it wasn't just fitness,
it was grooming too. He talked about you know, the
the long hair and the beards and mustaches, and you
know it's it's discipline.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, it's the look of discipline. You don't win with
an undisciplined let him do what.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
They want, let them hang out where they want.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And it doesn't happen. Now, the truth of the matter
is is that moving forward, wars aren't going to be
the wars we traditionally think wars are. True, but still
you need a fighting force that is ready and able
to take care of business. And you know, you said
what you want about Pete Haggs that I still you know,
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I'm still not enamored with the pick quite honestly, but
say what you want. He gets it. He understands it
because he was he was there. Okay, he was there.
He understands it. And I applaud him for telling our
nation's military commanders, a bunch of them, get your ship
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in shape. We're going to fight wars. We're going to
fight him to win him. And that's going to mean
that we have to have people that are capable of
doing just that.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
And the people at the top will be there because
of merit and not because of anything else exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So it's a return to well the sort of ideas
that has that have won us wars in the past.
And I got no problem with that. None of us
should have any problem with that. I mean, come on, now,
the President was also there and he spoke for about
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an hour yesterday, but some different topics.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
We're under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy,
but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.
At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take
them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are
under invasion from within.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay, Now, speaking of controversial there, that's going to be controversy,
and it already is as well. But the President talked
about using US cities as a as a training crown,
so to speak. I didn't know what he was talking
about there. Yeah, but an invasion from within mean who, Well,
(35:16):
that's that's that's the question. Okay. Now, is an invasion
from within from foreign terrorists, foreign adversaries? Is an invasion
from within from extreme leftists Antifa? And and that ill? Okay,
that we're talking about two different stories here that require
two different approaches. I'm gonna pretty much guess that most
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of those military higher ups in the room probably mixed
reaction to that, depending again on who the President's referring
to here. So this was not well. And then again,
they didn't. I did not take off the table the
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idea of, you know, getting the ranks at the top.
But this was not some sort of a mass firing
of it yesterday of generals and admirals. But I I'm
trying to think back, you know, in my time here
on this planet, at least when I was old enough
to pay attention to such things. I don't really recall
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somebody at Hexath's position ever calling it together all our
nations military leaders and addressing them as he did yesterday. Yeah,
I can't think of anything like this.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
It may have happened, but it was even more odd
that it happened right before we shut down the government.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
But get in there was that, So the reaction from
the leaders to the message. I gotta tell you, if
there's a single admiral or general in that room yesterday
that disagrees with Hegxeth's directive that our fighting force needs
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to be at a top fitness level in order to
carry out their mission, then they should probably go ahead
and quit. Yeah, you'd be stupid to say that out loud.
I'm sure there were a few of them, but I
think they'll keep their mouths quiet on that one. They
better now on what Trump had to say. He said
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a lot, but specifically on you know that you know,
we were fighting a war from within. I suspect that,
whether they verbalize or not, drew some very mixed reaction,
in particular if they felt like Trump was talking about,
(37:57):
for lack of a better term, political enemies. Okay, even
if we are talking about organizations like Antifa and their ILK,
I would venture to say that a lot of those
people in the room, those men and women in that
room yesterday, are uncomfortable with the idea of using the
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military against American citizens. Again, if we're talking about foreign
adversaries that are attacking our country from within, that's one thing.
But we're talking about American citizens. I suspect they had
some very different ideas about that. Okay. I was glad
to see that was televised in its entirety. Yes, you know,
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I was wondering, we're gonna get we're gonna be privy
to what gets said here or not? Well, we were.
I guess we should have known that when when we
found out the Trump was gonna address them as well,
that would sort of be open to the public. On that.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
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Speaker 2 (39:03):
They blocked on two votes.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
We're gonna have another vote tomorrow and they'll probably try
and block it again. But I think people are going
to start cracking because they're going to realize this is
a losing hand.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
There's going to be a crescendo as through the beginning
of October, the vast majority of Americans get those bills,
and they're going to say, what the heck are we
going to do? We need healthcare, but we can't afford it.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Stay fifteen and the government is officially partially shut down.
We're now at an hour number eight of the partial
government shut down. Good Morning is Wednesday, October first, John Thune,
Chuck Schumer there the Senate leaders. Thun last night referring
to two votes taken, probably another one today, And of
course Chucky is he wasn't talking about the bills that
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folks who have been furloughed now are going to get
and wonder how they're going to pay him. He was
talking about, you know, the bills folks are going to
get that are on the Obamacare, which at least accord
of their estimation. Estimate, yeah, estimation either right, word, CNBC says,
folks who are getting those subsidies right now could see
(40:09):
their healthcare bills well jump up one hundred and fourteen
percent or more. Actually yeah, more than double. So this
is the sticking point in all this, these subsidies for
Obamacare that were put into effect during the pandemic and
are still in effect. And like we always say, this
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is the problem. When the government gives something, it's very
difficult to take it away. Right. So if if you're
getting subsidies right now, you the average American getting these
is they're paying about eight hundred and eighty eight dollars
a year for Obamacare, that would jump up to a
(40:53):
little over nineteen hundred dollars dollars a year according to
some of the analysts. I don't know that's how exactly
that is. But this is what Democrats continue to push for,
is the enhanced premium tax credits. But that also includes
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health care for anybody here in this country, whether they're
here legally or not.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
Well, you can't get it legally, you can't get healthcare
if you're here illegally. I mean you that that's against
the law.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Somehow it's being done. Well, somehow it's being done.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
I know our side is saying that, but without a
whole lot of evidence. Well, we know that's not that's
not the sticking point. Well, yeah, the Republicans, I mean
some of the leaders are like like to tell you that,
but that's that's not the sticking point. You hit on
it the first time. We've got a healthcare system we
can't afford right now. Yeah, and Democrats want to just
keep blowing up that number.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
And you know what this is. This is like you
you got a kid, who's who's who's you know, got
behavioral issues, but you don't want to correct them, You
just keep enabling them. And this is what we're doing
the healthcare system in this country. Oh well, let's not
let's not try to get to the root problem of
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why it's so expensive. Let's just keep giving people money
so they could afford it. Well, you know, we're we're
spiraling down that drain rapidly here. And I don't know
what the answer is. I don't know how you get there,
but I mean it's well, we've all heard the stories.
(42:39):
You've probably done it too. You have a hospital stay
and what they charge you for an aspirin? It's crazy, man.
You thought we were paying ridiculous amounts of money for
toilets on airplanes in the military. Yeah, what do you
see what you get charged for an aspir in the hospital.
Speaker 5 (42:56):
There's wasting fraud everywhere everywhere.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
So healthcare is a sticking point here. Now. The last
shutdown we had it was almost seven years ago. It
lasted what about four weeks? Do we expect this to
go that long? I don't know. You had three Democrats
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in the Senate vote with Republicans to keep the government open.
Last night they got to what fifty five? I guess
it was, you need to get to sixty so five shy?
You got three last night? Will five Democrats get squirrely
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enough over the next number of days to say, okay,
let's stop this. And there's this other backstory here too.
Don't forget that. It wasn't that long ago that Chuck
Schumer went along with a spending plan and the extreme left,
the aocs of the world, hammered him over it, and
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he didn't want that to happen again. Okay, Chuck Schumer,
who wants to run for another term of the Senate,
who's already you know, a little older than dirt, wants
to spend another six years till he is, in fact
older than dirt. So he didn't want to. He didn't
(44:29):
want to. He don't. He didn't want to give in
on this one. What is the real reason? Is it
because of healthcare? Is it because of the AOC threat?
I don't know. But now, before this shutdown, the New
York Times took a poll and that poll indicated the
voters had blamed well both parties, and rightfully so. But
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nearly two thirds said that Democrats in Congress should not
force a federal government shutdown, nearly two thirds.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
And we know the longer shutdown lasts, the more the
stronger those feelings get. Yes, so maybe that will lead
some Democrats to look at this and say, this isn't
really going to help if we want to win the midterms.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Yeah, but in this poll, even forty three percent of
those who said they were Democrats, forty three percent said
they shouldn't shut the government down. Yeah, it's and of
course both sides are going to try to paint this
as it's the other side issue, right, But when the
rubber hits the road, what the American public is going
to remember is, okay, wait a minute. We came to
the brink. The Republicans offered a spending bill. It was
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the Democrats who said, no.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
That's why you hear these politicians calling it, you know,
Donald Trump's shutdown or Chuck Schumer's shutdown. Sure, yeah, I
mean they're trying to kind of solidify that idea in
your mind so that when you do go to the
polls eventually you blame.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
The other party. Sure, this is part of the game.
Now Here in South Carolina, we're some twenty five thousand
federal workers. We're talking about civilians now as part of
the federal workforce, about twenty five thousand. Most of those
(46:29):
are you maybe one up here at home today. You're
not getting a paycheck. Well, the shutdown is over, you will.
But there's also been this discussion that that Trump has
said several times with of course the last several weeks,
might take this opportunity to actually shrink the federal workforce.
(46:50):
Maybe some of these jobs don't come back. It's you
know those two point zero so to speak.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
Yeah, I would think you would be a little nervous
if you were labeled none as non essential.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Yeah, and here's the rub. If you're an essential employee,
you've got to be at work today, but you ain't
getting paid either. And we've got about thirty four thousand
active military in this state and other essentially deemed essential
workers who are on the job today and not going
to be collecting a paycheck. Okay, when all this is over,
(47:24):
whenever that is, you'll get your pay. But the meantime,
you know, they always talk about how you should have,
you know whatever, six months of saving set aside. I guess,
I guess if you're a federal worker, you might want
to make it a year's worth if you can. You
never known this kind of thing is going to drop
on you, right, all right, So we're in an hour
eight now the partial government shut down again. Essential services continue.
(47:46):
If you're on Social Security, you'll continue to get your
your I say, your check. I guess I'm not sitting
payer checks anymore, are they? All that is electronically depositive now, so,
but that that will continue. All there could be some heckups.
Certainly hear about it, look up to the country, talk
about it. This is pure evil.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
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Speaker 2 (48:20):
Eight forty one. Now final thoughts for Wednesday, October one.
Here we go today, the first day of the new month.
Testimony on a legislation that would result, if passed, in
a ban of almost all abortions in our state begins today.
(48:40):
All right, so here we go again. Senate subcommittee is
going to hear arguments this morning. Now, this is just
the first of a long process to potentially pass more restrictions,
discussions of outlawing abortions even before weeks.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
No exceptions for rape or incest, right, exactly, just the
health of the mother.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, would ban possession on abortion medications. I mean it
would basically be, yeah that unless you as the mother,
unless your health is at risk, then an abortion would
be ilegal. I don't know that, uh, you know, regardless
(49:30):
of my views on abortion, which I think you know
they are, I don't know that the state House will
will pass something this restrictive. I'm thinking not. But if if,
if this this, this, this bill is gonna want to
(49:52):
eat up a bunch of a big chunk of the
next legislative session more than likely. So we'll see where
it goes. We'll wait until then to find out. State
paper reporting that days after a TV reporter requested exit
interviews from employees who left the City of Casey, that
(50:13):
the city hired a communications.
Speaker 5 (50:16):
Firm, a different one than the one they're paying right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
To well, to promote the police department. It's been a
revolving door in the City of Casey for whatever the reason.
But so tax more than twenty six thousand dollars in
taxpayer money was spent with an outside confirm to promote
(50:44):
the police department of the City of Casey.
Speaker 5 (50:51):
They were putting out social media videos to put a
positive spin on the police department, hoping to combat a
negative TV story that never came out, right.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, that negative TV story never air, Okay, And I'm sorry.
You know, these PR departments, PR firms, you know, a
lot of them do really good work, and some of
them will. You gotta wonder. And I'm not passinating any
judgment on this particular one n P strategy. I don't
really know anything about them, but you know, with a smartphone.
(51:29):
That's all you need these days is a smartphone. You
could make your own videos, and there's there's free software
out there, by the way that you could use to
edit them. It's not real difficult anymore.
Speaker 5 (51:43):
Well, I've got to think the PR firm that they
do employ led by the spokesperson for the city.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah that one.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
Yeah, who also happens to be the spokesperson for IRMO.
But that's another story. You would think that she would
go back and say, you know what, I could have
done all this, and we could have. We could have
You could have spent a little bit more money with
me and I could have done it all. But at
what point, I mean, this was crisis. This was considered
(52:10):
crisis emergency PR mode over one TV story that made
that you didn't even know how it was going to
turn out yet and it turned out it didn't turn
out at all?
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Night or is this you realizing that, wow, we really
stepped in at this time, and if so, what did
you step in?
Speaker 5 (52:32):
Yeah, Okay, there's this there's way too much dysfunction, lots.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Of drama in the city of Casey. What a beautiful
and all the great things happening over there, and it
gets overshadowed by this sort of thing. I saw this
spot a few minutes ago. As a matter of fact,
I did this morning. Uh rom Ready, the Dojesse founder,
has launched a thirty second spot and it is running
(52:57):
stay wide now on Fox News. Saw this morning and
also buying digital space for this thirty second spot entitled
South Carolina's Government is Broken. In the spot, you'll hear
Ready say, we are the highest taxed red state in America,
but we rank at the bottom of income, education, roads,
(53:17):
and public safety. Government is rich and powerful, but we
the citizens are a weak and poor. Not what our
founders intended. He's talking about spending somewhere about a million
dollars over the coming weeks. Okay, that will get the
attention of some folks, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
I noticed the Freedom Caucus and the Republican Caucus. We're
going at it again on social media yesterday. Oh and
you wonder, I mean, with that much we just talked
about dysfunction, and casey, with that much dysfunction between the
quote unquote ruling party in this state, I mean a
lot of people look at what this doge South Carolina's
(53:58):
intent is and think, you know, it's not that far off.
It's things are broken around here.
Speaker 4 (54:04):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
You there may be some real there, maybe some real
legs of this thing, quite possibly. White House yesterday and
I don't know this. I don't know if there was
time to coincide with the government shut down over healthcare
or whatever, but the White House unveiling a direct to
consumer website to buy medications. They announced the deal with
(54:27):
Pfizer to lower the prices of meds and for Phiser
to drop in seventy billion in manufacturing in our country.
So that's a win win right there. On the flip side,
Trump's not going to tariff Pfiser. They'll get the most
favored nation pricing. They're calling this trump RX. Okay, I'm
(54:49):
happy with this until I get to that point right there.
Don't know, come on, I guess had Obamacare, so why
not this. But that's a great move. You talk about
insanity here a private college in Portland, Oregon. Didn't I
say more? Yeah, you can stop right there. Yeah, told
(55:10):
a senior security official on campus that he harmed its
reputation with donors and with the public. How he helped
the FBI catch a leftist riot suspect that just happened
to be an alum of the school read college. They
fired the guy for it. Okay, so head of security
(55:32):
helps the FBI capture a leftist riot suspect who just
happened to be an alum of the school. He gets
fired for it because the school says, you've heard our
reputation with the donors in the public, and you know
what truth of the matter is. It's Portland, Orgon. They're
probably right in that assertation. Yeah, maybe probably right. Again,
that was a business decision on their part. They don't
(55:54):
want to be known for law and order. They know
that's bad for business in the Pacific Northwest. And I'm
going to say this because this is not aimed at
being a criticism of Joe Biden, but at the people
around him that want him to run for another term. Here,
they've now underarth not cards from the Biden era that
show how the administration, what great links they went to
(56:18):
to prop up his memory cards, No cards with the
pictures and names of people like Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer,
Barack Obama. Wow, wow, is right. And I talked to
(56:44):
other day about that to bridge in China that open
is open now that bridge it's two thousand plus feet
above the river gorge in that canyon, the one that
I said, you know, I would never cross. Well, it
turns out that bridge takes what was a two hour
commute from one side of the Canye or the other
down to two minutes. Oh wow, so it's valuable. I'm
(57:07):
still not buying it, though, I'll take the two hours
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